Dyslexia is a frequent learning trouble for children. Many types of dyslexia exist and disturb both reading acquisition and writing acquisition. There are some solutions, like Storyplay’r, for helping dyslexic children.
What is dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a difficulty in reading acquisition and spelling. Dyslexia is found when children are at primary school, during the first years. It is not an intellectual disability or a psychiatric trouble. However, dyslexic people have some difficulties when they learn how to read. There is a difficulty in identifying letters, syllables, and words. There is also a slowness of written language and some confusion about sounds and letters.
There are 3 types of dyslexia:
- phonological dyslexia: there is a difficulty in the link between the grapheme and the phoneme. That is a dysfunction of the assembly line.
- surface dyslexia: when reading comprehension is tested, homophones are often confused with each other. Spelling can be also impaired.
- mixed dyslexia: it is both a phonological and lexical dysfunction.
How can we help dyslexic children to appreciate reading?
It is difficult to enjoy reading when we have some difficulties from the beginning of learning words. Therefore, Storyplay’r proposes a two-step approach to the problem. On the one hand, your child could take advantage of audio content to familiarize themself with reading while benefiting from its benefits. On the other hand, they can benefit from reading assistance.
Reading assistance
Storyplay’r provides some reading assistance tools to children:
- Pronunciation assistance: when the child clicks on a word or a sentence, they can hear the sound of this word or the sentence.
- Varied display options for easy reading: font, size, color, line spacing…
- Recording the voice: the lector becomes the narrator. The child can record their voice while they read, and listen again, alone and without stress. Parents and siblings can also record their voices and share personalized versions.
Audio contents
Storyplay’r has several hundred books in audio version told by storytellers. Your child could listen while they read a book. Despite their difficulties, they could benefit from reading benefits: develop their imagination, increase their vocabulary, and develop their reflection and analysis capacity.
